...true poet is literally a selfless being, a protoplasmic entity apt to take on all shapes and forms: »As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if 1 am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime;...

...world, opposed to the intense self-awareness that Keats was to identify as the governing stance of the 'Wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se and stands alone'. While he recognised Wordsworth as setting his poetic self over and against the perceived world, Keats...

...cited above echo Hazlitt's terms and continue his age's formulations on passive imaginative force: As to the poetical Character itself, (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, 1 am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which is a thing...

...beschrieben haben, bietet schon der berühmte Brief von John Keats an Richard Woodhouse vom 27. Oktober 1818: As to the poetical Character itself (I mean that sort...distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime ...) it is not itself - it has no seif - it is every thing and nothing - ... It has äs much delight...

...In a letter to Richard Woodhouse (October 27, 1819) Keats stated the following remarkable opinion: As to the poetical character itself (I mean that sort of which, if I am anything, lama member;) it is not itself - it has no self - it is everything and nothing. - It has...

...that sort which, if I am anything, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the Words worthian, or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se, and...alone), it is not itself — it has no self — it is everything and nothing — it has not character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be...

...and con, about genius," a dramatic distinction between his own ideal of the "poetical Character" and "the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se and stands alone" (i, 386-87). More forcibly articulated, the distinction was really the outgrowth of the contrast he...

...of the whole pro and con, about genius, and views and atchievements and ambition and coetera. 1st. As to the poetical Character itself (I mean that sort...which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort 10 distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se and stands...

...tended to try to escape egotism by escaping the self. "As to the poetical Character itself," he wrote, "(I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I...distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime. . . ) it is not itself- it has no self- it is every thing and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys...

...Sublime" Keats's description of Wordsworth, from a letter to Richard Woodhouse of 27 October 1818: As to the poetical Character itself (I mean that sort, of which, if I am anything, I am a member; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime; which...